Head of Egypt's Tourism Promotion Authority Samy Mahmoud will open the International Forum for Arab and Religious Tourism on Thursday, Al Bawaba News reported. The forum is scheduled to be attended a number of major companies working in the tourist sector in the Arab world to discuss the ways to improve the tourism during the coming period. Mahmoud said, in press statements, that the forum comes in the framework of the authority's strategy to promote tourism in the Arab world and to develop relations between the Arab countries in this regard.